I have been playing the game for about a month now, and I
am getting a little bored with it. I understand that you are trying to
accomodate a lot of different types of players and certain things have
to happen slowly. I just wish there were more things to do while
waiting for those things to happen.
I agree, the story should be longer because the game does not have much to offer to players who prefer story and single-player like experience. Unfortunately we are a small team and can only focus on limited number of things. Back in the days when the game were in the middle of ALPHA 2 we are about to start working on ALPHA 3, we have asked players whether we should focus on quests/story or on general things like new ages/buildings/units:
http://www.totemtribe.com/news/a-little-bit-of-everything/
The majority of players voted for more general things because it takes the same time to make, but longer time to "consume". I have said it many times, but can repeat again: couple of new quest locations and new age take roughtly the same time to create but different time for players to beat. With quest locations you can beat them in a couple of sittings, while with new age you can spend a month.
This does not mean that we should focus on ages only and skip on other thigs (after alpha 3 launch when we added Classical Age we have also added Keepers Village and New Kyiv couple of months later via update), but we are employing iterative approach - new alpha stage launch usually adds new age, then some time like couple of months we are not adding anything, but mainly releasing bugfix updates, then we work on more content and add quest locations via the update, then we stop on updates and work on the new age and new alpha stage. Currently we are towards the end of bugfix phase and about to start "add more content" phase with at least new (big) queset location to be added (Karfaree). This is planned to be the biggest and the most unusual quest location in Totem Tribe series.
Hopefully the explanation above makes sense.
On a side note, would it be possible to have the hero go from whatever town to another without having to return to the main town?
It was asked and answered recently in a separate thread:
http://www.totemtribe.com/talk/travelling-from-one-location-to-another/
Please take time to get used to the forum and read it little bit - you will get a lot of questions answered that you haven't even thought of and keep the mood here more constructive. Thanks!
